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From: c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
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Subject: Re: 8086 Unix, was Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.114726.24977@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 11:47:26 GMT
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In article <3676@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1991Apr10.035331.12694@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>| Ah, how soon they forget.  There were several perfectly OK versions of
>| Unix for the 8086.  IBM sold PC/IX, . . .
>  But he said SysV. I heard him.

Yes, I know someone who ran System V, on an 8088 with 640K of memory
and a 10MB 100ms hard disk with 20+ active processes.

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